Costa AP

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 2000-2019

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  • article 5

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  • endometriosis 5
  • infertility 2
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
2019
Spontaneous Heterotopic Triplet Pregnancy with a Two Viable Intrauterine Embryos and an Ectopic One with Right Tubal Rupture.
Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia ·doi:10.1055/s-0039-1683910

Heterotopic pregnancy (HP) is defined as the simultaneous development of an intra- and an extra uterine gestation. The occurrence of a spontaneous triplet HP is an exceptionally rare medical condition. We report the case of a young woman wi…

article 2004
Clinical predictive factors for endometriosis in a Portuguese infertile population
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deh374

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is an important clinical situation associated with subfertility. It would be very useful to identify patients at increased risk for endometriosis prior to laparoscopy. In the present study, we evaluate the demograp…

article 2004
Implications of the diagnosis of endometriosis on the success of infertility treatment.
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

PURPOSE: Endometriosis is a clinically very heterogeneous disorder and its implications on the resolution of infertility are not clear. METHODS: Clinical data of 783 consecutive infertile couples were retrospectively analyzed in three group…

article 2003
Peritoneal fluid concentrations of interleukin-8 in patients with endometriosis depend on the severity of the disorder and are higher in the luteal phase
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deg122

BACKGROUND: Previous evaluations of the relationship between the concentrations of interleukin-8 (IL-8) in the peritoneal fluid and endometriosis led to non-consistent results. Our purpose was to investigate the correlation of the concentra…

article 2003
Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 in the peritoneal fluid of patients with endometriosis correlates with the extension of peritoneal implants
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/s0301-2115(02)00263-4

ObjectiveTo investigate the correlation of the concentrations of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1) in the peritoneal fluid (PF) with the extent of peritoneal endometriotic lesions and with the presence of red lesions (RLs)…

article 2000
Tumour necrosis factor α concentrations in the peritoneal fluid of infertile women with minimal or mild endometriosis are lower in patients with red lesions only than in patients without red lesions
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/15.6.1256

Tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) of peritoneal fluid is believed to have important pro-inflammatory and angiogenic activities in the complex mechanisms of development of peritoneal endometriotic lesions. We have evaluated the concent…